Literary terms thesis statement definition

If
we substitute for a frog a "Mr. Goodwill" or a "Mr. Prudence,"
and for the scorpion "Mr. Treachery" or "Mr. Two-Face,"
and make the river any river and substitute for "We're both
Arabs . . ." "We're both men . ." we turn the
fable [which illustrates human tendencies by using animals
as illustrative examples] into an allegory [a narrative
in which each character and action has symbolic meaning].
On the other hand, if we turn the frog into a father and
the scorpion into a son (boatman and passenger) and we have
the son say "We're both sons of God, aren't we?", then we
have a parable (if a rather cynical one) about the wickedness
of human nature and the sin of parricide. (22)